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Could we overhaul the minor league side and keep pete walker as a finisher. So, change prospects at least if not major league signings? No matter how much we spend we aren't going to be dodgers north unless we can develop like them.

We would need yesavage in any trade for tatis.

You can extend varsho who i do not think will age well, promote our non existent close cf prospects or trade capital for a centre fielder, or sign one in a terrible FA class next year. There absolutely is a need.

I think they should try him at centre field. He has great instincts and range plus good sprint speed. His arm isn't great but the arm is probably less important there than in right ... maybe. If he can be league average, which isn't crazy imo.. he could be the varsho replacement next year,

You techincally need a better arm to play short than third as the longest throw is in the hole, but that throw happens less than long throws at third. So clement should be better at short than third. Bichette should be best at third? also, i assume that's gimenez?

I said this in the other thread but i'd offer him in trade and we'll take all the salary for this year. All 18 million. A team gets a free year and he might even opt out. Then we get the cash off the books next year when its a year where we could be trying to get under a number. I feel like this has san diego written all over it.

He's projected at 8/208 so typical free agent tax overpay. Seems reasonable to me.

Just choosing between them in a vacuum or at their projected contracts? mlb trade rumours has 11/400 and bo at 8/208. They have been pretty accurate in their predictions so far.

Bassit is going to get a real multi year starting contract from a team. He is not realistic. Scherzer is making 15m this year from the nationals. If he really wanted to he could take 5m and start the year on the IL or something. Or join mid year.

They do play in like a development league in the complexes which essentially replaced short season. There aren't public stats thought and i'm not sure who played or how much. Its crazy how penny wise pound foolish baseball owners are. They are really messing with development of their players. It also widens the gap. The smart big market teams will put even more money into development to try to bridge the gap. I think the word on cook is that he has natural contact skills but they need to rework his swing some to get to power. He had high scores at the combine at the test that correlates to power, i forget what it was .

The only problem with that is you sign tucker and bo, and aim to reduce payroll naturally next year. Who is playing centre field? You then need to go sign a free agent next year there or extend varsho. I wouldn't put barger in the same category as he is cost controlled for a long time. He is a guy i'd be extremely reluctant to trade unless i was blown away. Berrios, Santander and Rodriquez aren't really assets currently. I can see why you'd trade Berrios as he will have 10-5 rights and a full no trade in july. But i don't see why we'd trade the other two. We aren't getting anything back and they are useful to some extent. Why not give them a chance to have a big year and then trade them? If Santander hits 40 bombs this year, you could probably trade that deal, or just have a DH. The players that might get you something back, and who we might not need need this season are guys like varsho, schneider, lukes and lauer. I'd personally lean varsho and lauer as they have a single year of control. I'd be willing to trade schneider but maybe more reticent on lukes.

Also in the vein of kind of out there possibly dumb ideas. Let's say you sign bo and tucker. At that point you have such a loaded line up you could play Straw in centre field just for defense. Or Lukes if you think the defense is good enough. Then... you trade Varsho to Philly. They need a CF and Dumbroski is one of the few remaining gms willing to overpay right now in prospects. edit: just generally if i could add in free agency hard and then improve the farm via trades then we would be really set up next offseason to either hope some guys progress to the majors and be real contributers for cheap, or we have the ammo to swing trades next year for cost controlled guys, and mostly stay out of free agency.

If they wanted to go all out dumping money on this year but keeping money off the books next year, could they trade berrios and pay say 23m of his remaining salary, but frontload it. So, take all 18m, this year and then 2.5 the next two years, Essentially a team gets him for 3/43 but pay nothing this year. I feel like maybe someone like san diego who really need cheap pitching this year would jump at that.

It was bastardo. I think this guy will go above our pick, he was mentioned in the ba pod as the slam dunk rule 5 guy to be selected. I would be surprised if we lost Pinango or Arias but Rojas seems possible.

Ashby would be a great get but barger represents upside. Like if the adjustment he made is real, he has the power and defensive ability to be like 3/4/5 win player possibly. Its not a high chance but its a chance.

I personally would just keep santander but if we ate some portion of the deferred money, his contract is easily tradeable imo.

I would guess bastardo is relief. Estrada is very tradeable/cuttable.

He has an option left so worst case he's triple A depth all year.

I'm with you on clase but not jimenez.

I think people are worried about 40 man spots mainly.

Maybe i'm crazy but i think some team would just take straw for his defense. He's essentially only 6.4 million for one year. Cleveland pay a million on top of that and they pay his buyout next year.

That would be insane. Like a projected mid nineties wins?

He doesn't have options i think. So, you'd need to dfa him. If he has options i'd keep him for sure.

If i was arizona i'd want barger, nimmala and a couple of pitching prospects. To start. Marte is a literal star player on a great deal.

Yea people are not really realizing that Marte projects to be as good as vlad next year.